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The City of Pensacola first engaged GSG in 1999 to develop and implement a stormwater utility program over a series of phases. These phases included: (1) Financial Plan; (2) a comprehensive review of the adequacy of the current stormwater management regulations for the city in context with Escambia County and the Water Management District and determination of its strategic plan of action to address issues raised; (3) development of a rate model and rates; and (4) implementation of the stormwater utility program.
Since the program's implementation in 2001, GSG has provided ongoing annual maintenance service for the stormwater assessment database and GSG provides a web-based application for the city’s use in daily stormwater utility maintenance tasks.
Since April 1999, GSG has provided all executive-level services, operations, contract management and capital improvement planning and funding for the FGUA. Additionally, GSG is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the Capital Improvement Project (CIP) program. Since that time we have helped develop and fund almost $300,000,000 of infrastructure improvements to FGUA utilities which currently consist of over 26 facilities in five counties. As part of this, we created some of the most innovative concepts to utilize benefit-based funding, thus reducing the impact on FGUA operating revenues and rate-payers. In addition, we work with developers and builders to address the capacity demands placed on the utility systems and the creation of “capitalized capacity assessment.” This creates a pledgable source of revenue and spreads the cost over a multi-year period. www.fgua.com
The South Florida Water Management District engaged GSG to develop and identify alternative funding sources to fund an estimated $7.9 billion in capital projects associated with the Central and South Florida Flood Control Restudy Project (C&SF Restudy). The restudy’s purpose was to reexamine the C&SF project and determine the feasibility of structural or operational modifications to the project essential to restoration of the Everglades and South Florida’s ecosystem, while providing for the other water needs of the region. GSG conducted this comprehensive study and identified all associated costs and those components with the greatest potential for being funding by sources other than by federal, state or district general revenue sources. The evaluation process first involved grouping the components based on the improvement’s primary function. GSG then conducted a two-step evaluation. First, we determined the object of each project. Then, based on the project objectives, we determined whether to fund the project from alternative revenue sources. These alternative revenue sources would help fund the 50% local sponsor cost share required by the Water Resource Development Act of 1996. This step included three separate analysis based on:
GSG has worked with the City of Cape Coral since 2001 to develop and implement a system for billing and collection of assessments to fund water, wastewater and irrigation improvements. The resulting five-phase project totals $23 million and uses the tax bill collection method. GSG was also contracted to develop and provide city staff query support (internet access) for this project.
The PCSO engaged GSG to perform this study with two objectives in mind. The first objective was to develop an “Operations Profile” that identified all the services being provided, where those services were being provided, and for whom those services were being provided. The second phase was to develop and prepare a model that would allocate these costs according to the benefits and values of the services received to all of the citizens of Pinellas County, including those living within each municipality. The MSTU model was applied using the department’s FY 2003-04 budget of almost $200 million and was designed to serve as an on-going tool for the future as the county’s population changes and incorporates areas of expansion. The MSTU model contains specific mechanisms to account for change that occurs as the area grows.
During this engagement, the Sheriff’s Office asked GSG to develop and conduct an analysis and study that calculated the cost of providing full service municipal law enforcement via contract to area cities; full-service patrol; and investigation support service to its largest contract city (City of Dunedin, population 35,691). GSG’s analysis included both direct and indirect services provided in these contracts as well as the level of service provided for each community. As a result, we developed an extensive model to appropriately price the cost for all law enforcement services to include sworn personnel, supervisory personnel, equipment and overhead. The Sheriff’s Office immediately utilized the model to negotiate and re-price its service contracts and will use the model to price future contracts.